Local search provider DexKnows.com announced it will be using Maponics map data to offer neighborhood-level search for its individual city pages. One of the issues that has held back local search was its inability to bring context...

Krillion , a search engine for local shopping now works with Toshiba’s laptop division. Customers can search for Toshiba laptops and find out prices and availability of online and offline merchants. The announcement comes just...

About 20 percent of online searches have a local intent, where users are looking for businesses, organizations, events, and other information in a specific geographic area. Yahoo! has taken some pages from the Bing and Google search...

As a small business in a lackluster economy, making the most of your marketing dollars is critical to your bottom line. Using a local search engine, you can target customers in a particular region while maximizing your marketing investment...

AT&T Interactive and Yahoo yesterday announced an agreement under which AT&T’s 5,000 strong sales force will sell Yahoo! display inventory across the United States. The companies have existing relationships across a variety...

If you operate a local, brick-and-mortar business, you will want to check out Google's Local Business Center (LBC). No doubt, consumers have learned about your business through a Google search, or found directions to your location...

There has been a surge of annual growth for local search, according to a study conducted by comScore released today by the Yellow Pages Association. Local search grew 58 percent in 2008, reaching an annual total of 15.7 billion searches...

One of the major issues that local search has had in the past is that "local" really meant "local as defined by the user" - until now. Google has made a major advancement in local search and essentially integrated...

When the going gets tough, the tough (or smart) get out and buy some lists. Local search site and advertising network Local.com today announced the acquisition of approximately 14,000 local business advertisers from LiveDeal, Inc....

Microsoft announced the ability to add listings to Live Search Maps via the Live Search Local Listings Center . To add your listing to Live Search Maps, you will first need to verify that the business is not already listed. Once you're...

Local search and advertising company Marchex today announced the launch of Adhere, a pay-per-click advertising service that provides advertising and agencies the ability to receive placement on hundreds of premium publisher Web sites...

Local search site and ad network Local.com announced record search and traffic for May 2008. The Local.com site and its Local Connect™ network received a total of over 16 million monthly unique visitors (MUVs) in May, up from a record...

Local search and local advertising have been at the forefront of many Web promotion discussions recently. SuperPages must have heard them loud and clear as they are now enabling local businesses to interact with their customers and...

Leading local search engine Local.com announced enhancements to its Local Promote service. Advertisers are now able to automatically have their business listings submitted to major search engines and offers advanced call tracking to...

It looks as though Zvents will be the first local search engine to provide a localized version of Google's Universal search. Zvents will provide users with a blended local search (akin to Google Universal Search ) which will integrate...